No. VI-20 ELDAD WORCESTER (Eldad5, Moses4, William3, Samuel2, William1). b Tewksbury,
Mass, Jan. 22, 1763, d May 5, 1853; m Feb. 12, 1793, Esther, dau of Timothy Brown,
Tewksbury, Mass., b Dec. 23, 1771, d Oct. 10, 1818. He succeeded his father in the
possession of the homestead in Tewksbury on which he lived until his death at the age of
90 years. He was a soldier in the Revolutionary War, was one of the six months' volunteers
raised by the town of Tewksbury, July 4, 1780, to Jan. 8, 1781, was a selectman and
assessor for several years.

(ii) Susan Amanda, b July 18 (or 16), 1838, So. Boston,
d Richmond Hill, L.I., N.Y., July 3, 1913; m Aug. 26, 1854, Edwin Bond, Watertown, Mass.,
b Boston, Oct. 1, 1831, d Brooklyn, N.Y., Nov. 1, 1881. Mr. and Mrs. Bond went to Kansas
in 1854 as pioneers. They settled in Lawrence, Kansas, and experienced many privations.
They were in great danger from the border ruffians when it was a question whether Kansas
should be admitted into the Union as a free or slave state. They returned to Boston when
the Civil War broke out, and Edwin Bond served in the Navy as engineer on the
flagship Malvern. In Philadelphia during the war, they visited the hospitals relieving the
sick and wounded. They were both much interested in the cause of temperance.

(g) Maria, buried in Holliston, Mass.
(h) Matilda, b Oct. 2, 1825; m Springfield, Vt., 1849, Nehemiah Doane,
who d Portland, Or., May 4, 1905. Dr. Doane was educated at Holliston Sem., Vt., and
Boston Theological Sem., then located at Concord, N.H. D.D. Willamette Univ., Or. He was
the first Methodist theological graduate in America to be sent to a foreign mission
field. (Oregon Territory at the time was considered by the church as a foreign mission).
He is the author of three well known books on church doctrines. Mrs. Doane was
educated at Holliston and Newbury Seminaries, Vt. and after her marriage she and her
husband were sent as missionaries to distant Oregon Territory. Dr. Doane was
appointed by the Missionary Board to take charge of Oregon Inst. (now Willemette
Univ.) at Salem, Ore. After various perils by land and sea, and later in the wilderness,
they finally entered upon their work. Mrs. Doane was her husband's first assistant teacher
in the Institute as well as "the best assistant" in all the various duties of
his fifty years ministry. "Loved and revered by a wide circle of friends, she holds
as one of the most precious of her rewards the knowledge that 'her children rise up and
call her blessed'."

NOAH WORCESTER (Noah5,
Francis4, Francis3,
Samuel2, William1). b
Hollis, N.H., Nov. 25, 1758, d Brighton, Oct. 31, 1837, (Mount Auburn Cemetery,
Cambridge); m1st Nov. 25, 1779, Hannah, dau Moses Brown, Newburyport, b May 6, 1760, d
Nov. 16, 1797; m2nd May 23, 1798, Hannah, dau Jeremiah Huntington, Norwich, Ct., b Mar.
24, 1764, d Jan. 16, 1832. In 1775, at the age of 16, he enlisted as fifer in the
Revolutionary Army and served eleven months, during which time he was present at the
battle of Bunker Hill; then, with the exception of two months, during which he was again
in the army and present as fife major at the battle of Bennington. He resided for the most
part in Plymouth, N.H., until 1782, when he removed to Thornton, N.H. While employed as a
shoemaker and a teacher of youth he pursued a course of self-instruction preparatory for
the ministry, and was licensed to preach in 1786. He was settled pastor of the
Congressional Church in Thornton, Oct. 18, 1787, dismissed in 1809; supplied the pulpit of
his brother Thomas in Salisbury until May, 1813, and then removed to Brighton, Mass., to
assume the editorship of a new periodical called the "Christian Disciple". He
received the honorary degree of A.M. from Dartmouth 1791; and D.D. from Harvard, 1818. His
most important publications were: "Thoughts on the Origin of Evil;" "Bible
News;" "A Solemn Review of the Custom of War;" "Friend of Peace;"
and "Last Thoughts on Important Subjects." Residence Brighton, Mass. His
tombstone at Mount Auburn bears the following inscription:

To Noah Worcester, D.D.Erected by his Friends
In commemoration of his Zeal and Labors
In the cause of Universal Peace
And the consistency of his character
As a Christian Philanthropist and Divine.

JESSE WORCESTER (Noah5,
Francis4, Francis3,
Samuel2, William1). b
Hollis, Apr. 30, 1761, d Jan. 20, 1834; m June, 1782, Sarah dau Josiah Parker, b Apr. 24,
1762, d Apr. 1, 1847. In 1776, at the age of 15, he accompanied the expedition to
Ticonderoga and was afterwards repeatedly enrolled in the Continental Army. He removed to
Bedford, N.H., in 1782, returned to Hollis in 1794, succeeded to the homestead and lived
on it until his death. He and his wife united
with the church in Hollis in 1802. On the same day they presented twelve children - six
sons and six daughters - for baptism. He was an occasional contributor to the public
journals, and the author
of an unpublished work, called the "Chronicles of Nissitissit."

VII-92 Hannah, b Bedford, N.H., June 22, 1792, d June
6, 1853; m Oct. 11, 1825, Francis Fuller. Residence Hardwick, Vt. No children.VII-93 Leonard.VII-94 Deborah, b Hollis, N.H., May 22, 1796, d May 8, 1879; m Sept. 6, 1822,
Rev. Jacob N. Loomis. Mrs. Loomis was a women of well-balanced mind, clear judgment and
great firmness and fortitude, combined with gentleness and true womanly instincts. She had
decidedly literary tastes, but read only
the best books. She was a great help to her husband in his pastoral work and her religious
influence was positive and healthful even
to old age. Residence, Vt. No children.VII-95Martha, b Hollis, Oct. 24, 1797,d Sept. 9, 1824;
m Feb., 1819, Francis Fuller. Residence Hardwick, Vt.

Children of Martha Fuller

(a) Samuel Worcester, b Apr. 25, 1822, d Chicago, Oct.
23, 1873. He spent the first twenty years of his life on his father's farm. He then
studied law, and in 1853 he went to Illinois, locating first at Pekin. In 1857 he removed
to Chicago, being recommended by Abraham Lincoln to the firm Scammon and McCagg. Later he
became a member of the firm, then called McCagg, Fuller and Culver. Although suffering
from a pulmonary infection, he performed a great deal of professional labor, and won an
enviable reputation as a member of the Chicago Bar. He died at the age of fifty, honored
and mourned by all who knew him. We copy a few lines from the resolutions passed by the
members of the bar of Cook Co., Ill.
"Mr. Fuller was endowed by nature with
remarkable powers. He possessed a clear, capacious and investigating intellect, which, by
habits of intense application, had become thoroughly stored with the principles of
judicial science... united with great talents and great acquirements, he brought to the
practice of the law, unsullied purity of life and a high sense of professional
honor."
He married Lavine Culver. She survived him a
number of years, dying at Newport, Vt., Sept. 4, 1889. He left no children.
(b) Martha, b Mar. 22, 1824, 1843.

No. VI-49
LEONARD WORCESTER (Noah5,
Francis4, Francis3,
Samuel2, William1). b
Hollis, Jan. 1, 1767, d St. Johnsbury, Vt., May 28, 1846; m1st Nov. 1, 1793, Elizabeth dau
Samuel Hopkins, D.D., Hadley, Mass., b June 12, 1772, d Sept. 4, 1818; m2nd Jan. 25, 1820,
Eunice Woodbury, Salem, Mass., b July 13, 1770, d Aug. 6, 1846. He served an
apprenticeship in the printing office of Isaiah Thomas, Esq., Worcester, Mass., after
which he was for several years editor, printer and publisher of the "Massachusetts
Spy". He was chosen a deacon of the First Church, Worcester, in 1795, licensed to
preach Mar. 12, 1799, ordained pastor of the Cong. Church, Peacham, Vt., Oct. 30, 1799,
discharged the duties of his office until 1837, when he left Peacham on account of ill
health and resided with his sons in Littleton, N.H., and St. Johnsbury, Vt., until his
decease at the latter place. His remains were removed to Peacham for interment. Four of
his sons entered the ministry, the ordination of each being preached by their father.
He received the degree A.M. from Middlebury, 1804, and from Dartmouth
in 1827. He printed numerous sermons and controversial pamphlets.

No. VI-51
SAMUEL WORCESTER (Noah5,
Francis4, Francis3,
Samuel2, William1) b
Hollis, Nov. 01, 1770, d Brainard, Tenn., June 7, 1821, m Oct. 20, 1797, Zervia dau Dr.
Jonathan Fox of Dracut, Mass., and Hollis, b Feb. 16, 1779.
He labored on the farm of his father until 1791, then pursued studies
preparatory to college at Ipswich Academy, and with Dr. Wood of Boscawen, N.H., entered
Dartmouth College in the summer of 1792, graduated in 1795, studied theology with Dr.
Austin of Worcester four months, taught school in Hollis in the winter of 1795-6, in the
spring following became preceptor of New Ipswich Academy, and shortly afterwards was
licensed to preach. He was ordained pastor of the Congregational Church, Fitchburg, Mass.,
Sept. 27, 1797, dismissed Sept. 8, 1802, and installed pastor of the Tabernacle Church in
Salem, Mass., Apr. 20, 1803. His ministry covered a period of great religious activity, an
and out of the church, in which he bore a conspicuous part. The Unitarian controversy
which divided many of the principal Congregational churches of Eastern Mass., was at its
height. Dr. Worcester was a prominent champion of the orthodox side. He received the
honary degree of D.D. from Princeton College in 1811. At the first meeting of the American
Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions he was chosen Corresponding Secretary, and
performed the duties of this office in connection with those of the sole pastorship of the
Tabernacle until July, 1819, when he was relieved of a portion of his responsibility as
pastor by the settlement of Rev. Elias Cornelius as his associate. He continued these
relations with the Tabernacle and the American Board until his decease. (The American
Board was founded in 1810 to undertake overseas missions in the Far East, but after the
War of 1812 many churchgoers wanted to help the Indians to become good Christian citizens
and to share the nation's manifest destiny.) Dr. Worcester was deeply involved in the
efforts to acculturate, civilize and Christianize many of the Indian tribes of the
southeast, particularly the Cherokees. For several years before his death he worked
diligently to assist the Cherokees to prevent their forceful removal to the West. It was
on one of his many trips among the Cherokee Nation that he died. He was buried at
Brainerd, E. Tenn., a mission station in the Cherokee Nation. A monument erected by the
Board bears the following tribute from the pen of Jeremiah Evarts, Esq., who succeeded to
the Office of Corresponding Secretary:

Secretaries of the
American Board of Foreign Missions - Samuel is in center

"As minister of the gospel Dr. Worcester labored for
more than twenty years, with zeal, fidelity and success. As a distinguished
agent in exciting and directing the missionary enterprise of the American
churches he displayed eminent talents and impelled an ardent desire for the
salvation of the heathen. To To the promotion of this divine work he
applied all his faculties, till, exhausted by arduous labors he fell asleep in Jesus,
while on a visit of kindness to the Cherokee people."

His remains were removed to Salem, Mass., in the autumn of 1844, and deposited in
Harmony Grove Cemetery May 5, 1845.

He received the degree from Princeton College in 1811. Besides numerous occasional
discourses he published "Sermons on Universalism," "Two Discourses on the
Abrahamis Covenant," three "Letters to Dr. Channing," ten "Reports of
the A.B.C.F.M.," "Christian Psalmody" and "Watts Entire and select
Hymns."

No. VI-124SAMUEL PARKER WORCESTER (Benjamin5,
Benjamin4, Francis3,
Samuel2, William1) b
Weathersfield, Vt., Jan. 02, 1785, d Aug. 17, 1855 in Pittsfield Twp., Lorain Co., Oh.; m
Feb. 2, 1811 in Weathersfield, Vt., Mary Polly, dau of John and Lucia (Bradford)
McRoberts, b Jul. 24, 1790, Springfield, Vt., d Pittsfield, Apr. 30, 1877. Mary Polly was
one of ten children. Her father served in the Revolution. Through her mother's family, she
was descended from several of the Mayflower Pilgrims. Residence in Weathersfiled, Vt.
(about 1811-14); then Sudbury, Vt., until winter of 1825-26, when upon hearing about
Ohio's farm lands, they set out for Lorain Co. While attempting to cross the ice of Lake
Champlain, however, their bobsled and horses suddenly fell through losing all their
belongings. They were rescued by soldiers from nearby Ft. Ticonderoga, N.Y. In about 1832,
the family left Ticonderoga to relocate in Hollis, N.H.; and about 1835, returned to
Sudbury, Vt. It wasn't until June, 1845 that Polly's family joined her and Samuel in the
long awaited move to Ohio. A son, Benjamin, preceded his parents to Lorain county,
settling in Oberlin. They had 14 children, at least 80 grandchildren, and about 150-160
great-grandchildren. Their descendants annually gather in Pittsfield Twp. for a family
reunion. They and many of their descendants are buried in the old Pittsfield cemetery.

Notes from the "Machias Union", June 16, 1881:
" A family of 12, one died in infancy, 4 died as follows: Mrs. Jonathan Dorr (Judith)
at 80; Amos Wooster at 80; Moses Wooster at 66; Hannah Leighton at 78. The living members:
Polly Allen age 90; Leonard Wooster age 83; Esther Merrittage 81; Marriam Leighton age 77;
Deborah Stevens age 75; Abigail Look age 73; and Louisa Low age 86."

The census of 1810 shows John Worcester as living in Addison,
Me. with 3 sons under 10 and a daughter under 10. He was still living at Addison in 1820
with 3 sons, 2 of them under 10 and 3 daughters under 16 and 1 over 16. This would
indicate that 2 sons and a daughter are unaccounted for. The daughter over 16 could be
Salome Worster, b about 1803; m Thomas Foster of Centerville, Dec., 1842 and d before
1860. Her age was given as 47 in the 1850 census.